Principal Engineer - Blockchain

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking
• Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions
• Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Build, Develop, Implement, and maintain core blockchain modules in Go using the Cosmos SDK, including a sophisticated, role-based token-factory for native asset issuance
• Design and implement custom logic within the ABCI++ interface (Prepare-Proposal/Process-Proposal) to enable advanced features and optimizations
• Configure, launch, and maintain our blockchain network, including genesis configuration, validator setup, and consensus parameter tuning
• Implement and manage cross-chain functionality using the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol
• Write exhaustive Unit, Integration, and End-to-End tests to guarantee the security, correctness, and performance of the core protocol
• Participate in architectural discussions, conduct rigorous code reviews, and contribute to our high standards for technical documentation
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in our development, test, and production environments
• Professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend or distributed systems
• Expert-level proficiency in Go
• Demonstrable, hands-on experience developing and maintaining custom modules for the Cosmos SDK
• Solid understanding of CometBFT consensus and the Application Blockchain Interface (ABCI/ABCI++)
• Experience in launching or contributing to a Cosmos-based blockchain network
• Deeply committed to writing clear, maintainable, and thoroughly tested code
• Experience in cloud adoption of Blockchain applications including GCP (target platforms) or similar Blockchain frameworks
• Good proficiency in RUST – Ability to understand, dissect and build services

Experience in development of enterprise scale banking applications will be a plus